DIY Organic Beauty Recipes

I have been wanting to do a review of this book for quite some time. DIY Organic Beauty Recipes is the most comprehensive book that I have found on the subject to date.

I have been getting in to making my own personal products recently and this book came out at the perfect time! The book itself is user friendly and easy to read.

It is complete with beautiful pictures and well researched content. It is professionally designed and organized very well. The book is just lovely and the content…even better!

Honestly, when I first opened this book, I expected to find a few familiar recipes, nothing totally new. When I got to the table of contents, I was blown away!!

There, I found sections such as face and body cleansers, toners, hair care, lotions and balms, soaks and scrubs, baby care, toothpaste, deodorant, lip care, sunscreens, and bug sprays! I really feel like Heather covered such a wide variety of personal care products, I am trying to figure what she left out!

Besides all of the great recipes, Heather includes research, links to find out more, and even a tutorial on how to render tallow. I have tried several recipes in this book, and all of them have worked out great! But, there are two recipes that I want to share with you today.

Eye Make-up Remover.

I had just run out of a store bought version, so when I saw this recipe in the table of contents, AND had the ingredients, I made a batch. And it worked just as good, if not BETTER than my store bought version. TWO ingredients, friends. Two. Check it out…

2 ounces witch hazel
2 ounces olive oil

Mix the ingredients together and store it in a small clean container in a cool and dark place. Dab some on a cotton ball and wipe across your eyes. Voila!

Oil Cleansing

The other DIY Beauty Recipe that I was eager to learn more about was Oil Cleansing.

I had read about it here and there and the thought of washing my face with oil seemed so counter-intuitive. When I saw that Heather included a section on oil cleansing, I thought perhaps it was time to give it a try myself.

After reading about oil cleansing, it made perfect sense to me! Of course my skin got super oily because the soap or cleanser I just used just took all of the oils away. Now my skin was working in overdrive to replace what I removed.

Oil cleansing works in that certain blends of oils can remove dirt and grime without taking away the natural oils. Since starting with oil cleansing, my skin has been awesome. It is clean and now I don't get as oily during the day. I even use it to take off makeup. At first I was skeptical, but it came right off!

Heather includes recipes for different skin types. I use the combination skin recipe which is 1 part hazelnut oil, 1 part sweet almond oil, and 2 parts avocado oil. Then I followed this tutorial on how to do oil cleansing. If you haven't tried oil cleansing yet, you should! It is amazing.

Are you curious about making your own beauty products, using quality ingredients? This book is for you! Each recipe comes with a beautiful picture that inspires you to make more products!

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Since I have had my first child, I have committed to living a healthy lifestyle. This includes beauty products. I would love to take the plunge and learn how to make everything myself! I hope to win this book! Fingers crossed.

I want it for myself– I have been trying to use all natural ingredients for everything and often find myself stumped as to how I can substitute natural ingredients on a tight budget. This is a great solution!!

One reason I would be excited to win this book is because on the mommypotamus site she says that the book has a tip about how to make the homemade lotion last longer un-refrigerated, and I need to know that tip! 😀

Just found your blog and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it already!! 🙂 My skin is the WORST. I have eczema that covers most of the upper part of my body (arms, shoulder, chest, neck, face), not to mention dry skin, pimples, tinea, dirty pores, ingrown hairs, scars on my face, hips, legs and behind, and generally really sensitive/sore/itchy skin. I can only use natural products or my skin burns and gets really sore for an hour or more. I can’t sleep or study (or live!) properly if my skin isn’t nourished with real ingredients, and this book would really help me live a little. It’s so hard to find real-ingredient skin recipes that WORK, and they’re the only things I can use! Please help me and my disastrous skin 🙁Jordie recently posted…Korea’s Hidden Superfood Meal

I have just started the oil cleaning method and I’m ready to make more recipes!! I’m ready to stop giving my money to big companies who add all sorts of chemicals, fragrance and additives to their products!

I’d love to win because I just started getting rid of toxic cleaners and beauty products and making my own using natural ingredients and essential oils. I want to make sugar scrubs and face cleansers and would love a recipe to follow.

I would love to have this book, I am trying to switch over to diy methods for my personal hygiene routine. New ideas would be a huge bonus. Can you post where we can get this, for those of us who don’t win? 🙂

I’ve been wanting this book for a while now but have been holding off because I know the minute I get it I will NEED to make EVERYTHING. In a few weeks I’ll actually have time to do that so this would be the PERFECT time to get it.

I have just started on a road to Natural Beauty – and am in the process of changing my beauty regime to be 100% natural… there’s alot to learn in the process – and I would love to have this book, filled with natural skin care recipes, to help me and give me ideas! I”m motivated, and loving the natural way – some help and guidance would be much appreciated though!!! 🙂

My entire real food journey began 5 years ago with my beauty products. I was wondering what I was slatering on my tiny baby. The research just snowballed and we’ve been changing everything. Despite using low-toxin beauty products for years, I still don’t make many of them myself. I know, kind of surprising, right? I’d love to win this because I’m too poor to buy it. 🙂

I absolutely love any books that are health and wellness related. Bonus points when they are DIY and able to decrease the toxic JUNK that I bring in the home!Michelle Bowman recently posted…Fresh Baby My Plate: Part 3 Awesome Giveaway!

I would love to have this book for myself. We’ve made a lot of changes to what we eat in the last few months but we’re still working on the bath and body items. I would love to have great recipes to get started.